A Guangzhou-based company has created a first-ever cable logistics system, touted as potentially revolutionary to worldwide transport. The new system aims to provide one-hour citywide delivery and same-day delivery nationwide to the entirety of China.
According to Logistics and Material Handling, 'Intelligent Logistics Express,' by iBosst will cost its customers only half the price of standard transport methods.
‘The Intelligent Logistics Express is a world first and a triumph for Chinese creativity,” said iBosst chairman Ma Yasheng, in an article by New Vision. “I firmly believe in the future people will have their entertainment demands satisfied through the Internet and their material demands through iBosst’s intelligent logistics network.”
iBosst launched their first ‘smart express’ in May, spanning 15 kilometers through Xin’an Town, in Huazhou, Guangdong.
The system uses a network of low hanging cable rails with attached shuttle robots capable of carrying up to 100 kilograms worth of goods (picture a miniature gondola).
ILE focuses on satisfying four demands – “flexibility, punctuality, fast speed and low cost,” and uses GPS tracking to monitor each container.
Each kilometer of the smart logistics express costs iBosst RMB150,000 to install, and the company estimates that, once mass produced, the cost will drop to RMB100,000.
In the coming years, iBosst hopes to expand the company and provide logistics express networks to every town and city throughout the country.
“I hope this new transport system can be accepted so its full potential can be realized,” said Ma, according to New Vision. “When the train was invented, people said it was a strange beast.”
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